Lewis County Schools is the operating school district

School district

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 within Lewis County

Lewis County, West Virginia

As of the census of 2000, there were 16,919 people, 6,946 households, and 4,806 families residing in the county. The population density was 44 people per square mile . There were 7,944 housing units at an average density of 21 per square mile...

, West Virginia

West Virginia

West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...

. It is governed by the Lewis County Board of Education, of which the Superintendent is Joseph Mace.

High school

• Lewis County High School Tim Derico, Principal. Over 800 students enrolled.https://www.edline.net/pages/Lewis_County_High_School

Middle school

• Robert L. Bland Middle School. Grace Tallhammer, Principal. Over 850 students enrolled.https://www.edline.net/pages/Robert_L__Bland_Middle_School

Elementary schools

• Alum Bridge Elementary School. Mary Scott, Principal. Over 60 students enrolled.https://www.edline.net/pages/Alum_Bridge_Elementary_School
• Jane Lew Elementary School. George Reynolds, Principal. Over 300 students enrolled.https://www.edline.net/pages/Jane_Lew_Elementary_School
• Peterson-Central Elementary School. Steven Hall, Principal. Over 460 students enrolled.https://www.edline.net/pages/Peterson_Central_Elementary
• Roanoke Elementary School. Denise Sprouse, Principal. Over 140 students enrolled.https://www.edline.net/pages/Roanoke_Elementary_School

Polk Creek Elementary School was closed and sold in an auction earlier in 2005. The closure of the school relocated over 80 youth to Peterson-Central and Jane Lew Elementary Schools.

Controversies

The West Virginia Human Rights Commission is investigating charges that Rhonda Bennett, a preschool teacher at Peterson-Central Elementary School, used a biracial child as a lesson prop and told schoolmates that the child had been adopted. Joseph Mace, superintendent of Lewis County schools, refused to return phone calls and e-mails from The Associated Press but acknowledged the incident to a local television station.

Board of Education members

• E. Cline Craig
• Sylvia McNeish
• Buck Propst
• Paul Derico
• Beth Burkhart, President